Van Vranken v. Helvering’s Empirical Analysis
115 F.2d 709 · 1940
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1981
10 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Helvering v. Hallock · Brewster v. Gage · France & Canada Cie. Francaise de Navigation v. United States · Whitney v. United States · Erie Railroad v. Fritsch
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the well-recognized canon of construction that the reenactment of a statute incorporates preceding judicial interpretations”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leist v. Simplot
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.